 The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 5avtor: James Boswell - 1901Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 strani
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The bnsiness of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, end display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, • nd men... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 strani
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 strani
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 strani
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 strani
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 strani
...those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily...prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, vith great propriety, said by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 strani
...those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, , and display the minute details of daily...appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only i by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, ' with great propriety, said by its author... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 strani
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name; but the business of a biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 strani
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 strani
...of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often topass at Huggins has ball without Jaily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only bv prudence and... | |
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